Any DC Rumors?

[KB21]

Brent Pry is picking up a lot of steam. I feel pretty comfortable confirming now that we're decently far down the road with him. It would be a bit of a letdown if we can't get that one across the finish line.

I figured we were down the road on getting someone if they are getting ready to announce Hutzler's dismissal.

[KB21]

Is Pry still in Blacksburg at this time?

I would guess so.

[Thick]

Don't forget his love affair with Freeze and Corral. Hell, I thought Corral might have been his illegitimate son.

If that were the case, Corral would have been the equipment manager.

[StarkVegasSteve]

I think it's going to be more of a not do what Arnett did and hire assistants and position coaches before the DC. I think after we have a DC agreed to in principle there will be some open conversations. Jamar Chaney at Houston and Pernell McPhee at Michigan would be two of my first calls, especially with rumors that Turner is thinking about stepping back into either an off-field or retiring altogether.

David Turner has coached his last game. He will be retiring.

[StarkVegasSteve]

There was a flight from Starkville to Blacksburg yesterday. It is probably nothing but interesting regardless

Freight flight. But oddly enough it caused some of our media members and pretty connected guys on the other site to do some digging and found out we were pretty far down the road with Pry.

[KB21]

David Turner has coached his last game. He will be retiring.

His last three years here shouldn't diminish how good he was under both Sylvester Croom and Dan Mullen for this program. He was a great coach who I believe the modern game has passed him by.

[TheRef]

David Turner the recruiter was one of the best finders of diamonds in the rough back in the day. Unfortunately the game and recruiting has passed him by, because he was still under the old impression that he could do "My way or the highway" type of recruiting and be perfectly honest with them.

[StarkVegasSteve]

His last three years here shouldn't diminish how good he was under both Sylvester Croom and Dan Mullen for this program. He was a great coach who I believe the modern game has passed him by.

The modern game, more importantly recruiting in the NIL era, just passed him. He did great work for us from 07-09 and again from 13-15. He grinded his ass off in some recruitments (Fletcher, Pernell, Boyd, etc) in those early years and was not going to be outworked for Jeffrey Simmons.

[KB21]

Saw where Steve Robertson chimed in. He says it's a little early to say it's for certain and that he has a chance to stay at Virginia Tech under Franklin. That would just be odd to me. However, he says that there is another candidate whose name we know that will take it if offered. I'm only assuming that's Wilcox.

[Really Clark?]

I think some coaches are waiting for the LSU domino to fall with Baker most likely going to Tulane as HC.

[StarkVegasSteve]

Saw where Steve Robertson chimed in. He says it's a little early to say it's for certain and that he has a chance to stay at Virginia Tech under Franklin. That would just be odd to me. However, he says that there is another candidate whose name we know that will take it if offered. I'm only assuming that's Wilcox.

Why in the hell would he stay at the school that fired him?

[Todd4State]

Why in the hell would he stay at the school that fired him?

Wouldn't be awkward at all.**

Sounds like something MSU would do. LOL.

[KB21]

Why in the hell would he stay at the school that fired him?

Yep. No matter how good of a relationship he has with Franklin, I just can't see a guy accepting a demotion from being head coach to being defensive coordinator at a program. That just creates a little too much potential internal conflict.

[BlackSailsDawg]

Saw where Steve Robertson chimed in. He says it's a little early to say it's for certain and that he has a chance to stay at Virginia Tech under Franklin. That would just be odd to me. However, he says that there is another candidate whose name we know that will take it if offered. I'm only assuming that's Wilcox.

I will say this. Hutzler has handled this professionally so far. Be it moving on or be it changing responsibilities, he didn't Kiffin it up.

[Todd4State]

Saw where Steve Robertson chimed in. He says it's a little early to say it's for certain and that he has a chance to stay at Virginia Tech under Franklin. That would just be odd to me. However, he says that there is another candidate whose name we know that will take it if offered. I'm only assuming that's Wilcox.

Yeah. I might be reading too much into his comment but it definitely sounds like we have another guy ahead of Pry according to him. I figured it was Wilcox or Armstrong.

[Coursesuper]

Why in the hell would he stay at the school that fired him?

He and Franklin go way back. But you still have think it would be odd that he stayed there.

[Todd4State]

We have our own people on local radio lambasting our admin for not going after Muschamp.

People listen to this and think "What are we doing? We should be going after Muschamp!"

Our morons on the radio do us ZERO favors.

I don't understand why they want him so bad. He hasn't coached in years. They might as well be clamoring for Jimbo Fisher for OC.

[BankerDog]

Bounds and his buddy at CFB Matrix Bartoo also thought Barbay was some offensive genius and praised our boosters for hiring him.

[Todd4State]

Come to think of it asking Hutzler to be our ST coach kind of sort of is like Virginia Tech asking Brent Pry to be their DC.

[StarkVegasSteve]

Come to think of it asking Hutzler to be our ST coach kind of sort of is like Virginia Tech asking Brent Pry to be their DC.

Not really. You still have a coordinator title at that role. You're just coordinating another group. Whereas, Pry would be going from HC with total control of everything in the program to only one part. It would be wild if a guy takes ANOTHER job from the same people who hired him to run the program but said he sucked at that.